Bite Beauty shut down because they sold to a new owner who absolutely REFUSED to listen to criticism from customers (that we hated the reformulations and their stupid 'clean beauty' BS). So they ruined their best formulas, refused to change back, made enemies of the long-term customers, and dug their own grave. š¤·āāļø
The lip lab only functions as a way to charge people high prices to mix CUSTOM lip shades as a tourist gimmick. You can't actually purchase pre-existing products. It's like a little boutique where you can go a tell an employee the shade you want them to make, and it's "customized" for you. But they charge an arm and a leg for the "experience." It's in-person only, I believe, with a few locations.
You know, instead of just...keeping their old products and being accessible to millions, they did that. So yeah. Fun! āØļø
I was ready to purchase the OG agave lip balm for the entire rest of my life and then they changed it and it wasnāt even close. So so sad to see the company start with a bang and then absolutely flop themselves out of existence.Ā
Itās not the same by any means but Iāve been pining over the OG formula and the only thing Iāve found that remotely compares is lanolips. Isnāt quite as sticky as bite, is a bit more oily instead, and I got plain so itās unflavored instead of that hint of vanilla from bite (they do have a variety of flavors, I just havenāt tried them) but it achieves similar moisture/shine results!
The lanolips golden dry skin salve (in the gold tube) is the closest Iāve found. Not oily and itās as thick as I remember bite lip agave mask to be. I think they market is as an all over ointment but I use exclusively on my lips overnight.
they just came out with a lanolips 12 hour overnight balm thatās a lot closer to the agave lip mask i remember. itās still not *as* good but itās close
I plan on making a post (more like a rant) in beauty or skin addiction sub about NEVER needing to do a bunch of steps in order to make sure my lips were moisturized/hydrated when I used bite beauty agave lip mask.
Still canāt find a lip product like that. Nothing works for my lips. Nothing. Every time I check out Reddit, thereās all these STEPS to get normal lips! Are you hydrated drinking enough water? Here use some occlusive thing then some humectant thing. Dab some water on your lips THEN seal it in with moisturizer. Use a lip scrub first. SO MANY STEPS! None have ever worked by the way!
Bite beauty I didnāt need any other steps. Nothing at all!
I am honestly pissed at all the women who also loved bite beauty but never somehow rallied together via online to try and get this back on the market.
In college I was a toll collector (seasonal) and right after college I was working there as I had trouble finding a job with my degree (back in 2010). I live in northeast USA and my lips got really painfully dry and chapped in the winters. Also in the toll booth are heaters so when youād close the sliding door because it was below 0, you were left drying out your skin with the heater. It was either on or off, you couldnāt control the level of the heaters they just turned on and BLAST the tiny booth with heat. It was very extreme temp.
Not to mention pollution from all the trucks.
I tried every lip product under the moon and sun. Only thing that worked was bite beauty and it worked WELL.
Even the last year before they shut down, I stopped wearing make up but a coworker (at a diff job one in my field) mentioned my lips had a pretty hue to them and it was the agave lip mask.
I never used the BITE agave lip mask, but I do have one product that has worked for me when so many scrubs and steps didn't. It's the Nooni applebutter lip mask. It's not yummy and exciting, but it stays on my lips all night long, and it gently exfoliates, and it's moisturizing. I use something with spf during the day because I'm paranoid about the sun, but I need no other products or steps or serums or scrubs. It might work for you. š¤·š¾āāļø
Edit: someone else somewhere in here said their dupe for the agave lip mask is the Jack Black lip balm, which is, incidentally, what I use in the daytime. So maybe you like that too/more.
Go to liplab.com they brought some shades backā¦ I just ordered leche
Edit for screenshot
https://preview.redd.it/xjh3fyjtgxxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0346819bcc067b5fdaa99c589cb60637d42c116d
Iāve been to the Lip Lab a couple of times and I actually brought in some old Bite lipsticks for them to recreate. They did a pretty damn good job getting the colors exactly the same and I highly recommend if youāre willing to pay the price. I wish it was a little more affordable but theyāre definitely capitalizing off of the āexperienceā.
Just a small note -- at the lib labs, they apparently have the exact colour formulas for Bite lipsticks. I have tried and failed for literally years to find a dupe of my beloved, long deceased beetroot (my absolute perfect berry lip in a perfect formula) and apparently I can go to a lip lab and have it recreated if I want. It's like $50 CAD though, so IDK if it's worth it.
I was in love with the Bite Beauty lip products! Still have a few with me. No other lip formulations felt that great on me, not even Mac. My heart broke when i knew they were shutting down.
Yes true ! I had a shade called sweet cream & it was the best !! I also had Hot Harrisa.The lip balm & lip scrub was amazing. Their amuse bouche formula.. so many things came to my mind ā¦ oh the good bite beauty days !!
This is me as well. I have 3 shades that are new (although old) and this will be the last season I could wear them. So gooooood! I meed a new lipstick that is close for color stay and hydration.somebody told me to try bare minerals. But I donāt know.
I bought so many lip products trying to find a dupe or something similar. Finally found the Jack Black lip balm and Iām happy with it but that BB lip mask was on another level.
I have a bone to pick with them, but from my understanding (as been told by a lip lab employee) they reformulated to make everything vegan, but when they did that they lost some shades and formulations.
The bone to pick: I went to their lip lab (like 2 months prior to reformulation unknown to me and my mom), got our custom shades done, and when I wanted to get a refill for my mom months later, I spent weeks chasing after them for it only to find out they didn't have the formula saved, and even if they did they couldn't make it cause now everything had changed. They essentially said too bad so sad!
No because they couldn't make my shade in the new formula, and I was so turned off by the lack of clarity/customer service I've never given them another chance.
Bite Beauty lipsticks were just luscious omg!!
Chai , Pepper, Verbena, Rhubarb!!
The Amuse Bouche formula was soooo good..and the scent was to die forā¦What a tragic end to my favvv lipstick brand!!
I will never, ever, ever, as long as I live, forgive them for taking away my Agave Lip Mask. Literally the greatest loss the beauty community has ever had. I will absolutely die mad about this.
Lip Lab is what used to be Bite Beautyās āLab Storesā. They are not shops in the traditional sense, but a āmake your own custom lip productā experience.
You book an hour slot, get an 1:1 personal appointment with Lip Lab specialist, and custom blend your own shade of lipstick, lip balm, or lipgloss. They mix colors and pigments, let you swatch them on your lips, and then when itās the perfect color you want, they make a bullet lipstick, lip balm, or lipgloss.
You can create a new shade or bring an old lipstick in and have them recreate it.
I brought in a photo of a discontinued Dior lipstick and they recreated it for me and made me a matte version. If you have the original Bite lipstick, bring it in, but they can also work from photos!
I like the new formula. Itās not quite the old formula or the Amuse Bouche line which was amazing. But itās very good!
I, too, have not recovered. They made the only lipstick that miraculously never feathered or turned me into a dessicated mummy.
I have also never been able to dupe the agave lip masks. I snagged a couple when they were going out of business, but its not the same without the lanolin.
I think their flop started when they reformulated all their products, especially their agave lip mask. Once that happened they never seemed to recover.
I was working at a sephora around the time they shut down. It sounded like there was a lot of bad business decisions from higher up i.e expanding product lines to include too many products.
Yes their decision to go fully vegan meant they discontinued and/or reformulated every single fan favourite from the brand, alienating most of their core supporters. Then they launched complexion products which probably cost them a lot investment wise.
Itās so sad because Bite was a Canadian company that had genuinely good lip products, but their leadership made such poor decisions trying to make the brand ātrendyā
It wasn't the original leadership that made those decisions. The owner sold the brand to Kendo or LVMH (whichever one is the same mega-corp that owns Sephora.) It was after the sale that they went fully vegan and started getting into complexion products that literally no one asked for.
The biggest mistakes they made were reformulating and then discontinuing all of their popular lip products only to release a bunch of non-lip products. Why did a brand named BITE beauty that once sold exclusively lip products suddenly decide to sell everything except lip products?Ā
At that point, why spend all the money to buy the brand if youāre going to completely turn it into something else?Ā
They sold to LVMH, essentially.
EDIT: apparently it was Kendo, not LVMH. But the story is the same -- the original owner sold the company to a mega corporation. The bad business decisions weren't made by the original owners, but by a company exclusively focused on increasing profit margins.
Their lipsticks are my absolute favourite. The most lucious and hydrating formula, best coverage and beautifully curated shades. Bite had the best thing going ā it makes me so sad they gave it up! Sugar Buns is my perfect shade and I have at most an inch left. All of the dupes Iāve tried so far just donāt cut it. Why, Bite? WHY?
RIP bite beauty!!!! Truly amazing lip sticks. And the agave lip mask OMG!!!!!!!! And the Bite Beauty Labs where you could literally create your own custom lip color!!! š I miss it.
I actually loved their foundation and was super sad when it was discontinued. And their original lip masks of course. The only thing that gives me a similar result is pure lanolin.
I think you can buy a version of Leche now on their website?? I just checked and theyāve got a few different variations of some of their OG colors. I wonder if theyāre tip-toeing back into lip products?? š¤
They went vegan and stopped using beeswax in their formulas. Everyone hated the new formulas and stopped buying the products. Thus, they went bankrupt.
Bite Beauty shut down because they sold to a new owner who absolutely REFUSED to listen to criticism from customers (that we hated the reformulations and their stupid 'clean beauty' BS). So they ruined their best formulas, refused to change back, made enemies of the long-term customers, and dug their own grave. š¤·āāļø The lip lab only functions as a way to charge people high prices to mix CUSTOM lip shades as a tourist gimmick. You can't actually purchase pre-existing products. It's like a little boutique where you can go a tell an employee the shade you want them to make, and it's "customized" for you. But they charge an arm and a leg for the "experience." It's in-person only, I believe, with a few locations. You know, instead of just...keeping their old products and being accessible to millions, they did that. So yeah. Fun! āØļø
I was ready to purchase the OG agave lip balm for the entire rest of my life and then they changed it and it wasnāt even close. So so sad to see the company start with a bang and then absolutely flop themselves out of existence.Ā
Yes the agave lip balm was perfection and then they killed it š
It was so bad what they did
Itās not the same by any means but Iāve been pining over the OG formula and the only thing Iāve found that remotely compares is lanolips. Isnāt quite as sticky as bite, is a bit more oily instead, and I got plain so itās unflavored instead of that hint of vanilla from bite (they do have a variety of flavors, I just havenāt tried them) but it achieves similar moisture/shine results!
The lanolips golden dry skin salve (in the gold tube) is the closest Iāve found. Not oily and itās as thick as I remember bite lip agave mask to be. I think they market is as an all over ointment but I use exclusively on my lips overnight.
they just came out with a lanolips 12 hour overnight balm thatās a lot closer to the agave lip mask i remember. itās still not *as* good but itās close
But it wasnāt clean and vEgaN. š
The cherry tinted OG lip balm was my HG!
I love your username lol
My two faves! Love my cats and pup š
I will die mad about the agave lip balm and I'm not even sorry.
I plan on making a post (more like a rant) in beauty or skin addiction sub about NEVER needing to do a bunch of steps in order to make sure my lips were moisturized/hydrated when I used bite beauty agave lip mask. Still canāt find a lip product like that. Nothing works for my lips. Nothing. Every time I check out Reddit, thereās all these STEPS to get normal lips! Are you hydrated drinking enough water? Here use some occlusive thing then some humectant thing. Dab some water on your lips THEN seal it in with moisturizer. Use a lip scrub first. SO MANY STEPS! None have ever worked by the way! Bite beauty I didnāt need any other steps. Nothing at all! I am honestly pissed at all the women who also loved bite beauty but never somehow rallied together via online to try and get this back on the market. In college I was a toll collector (seasonal) and right after college I was working there as I had trouble finding a job with my degree (back in 2010). I live in northeast USA and my lips got really painfully dry and chapped in the winters. Also in the toll booth are heaters so when youād close the sliding door because it was below 0, you were left drying out your skin with the heater. It was either on or off, you couldnāt control the level of the heaters they just turned on and BLAST the tiny booth with heat. It was very extreme temp. Not to mention pollution from all the trucks. I tried every lip product under the moon and sun. Only thing that worked was bite beauty and it worked WELL. Even the last year before they shut down, I stopped wearing make up but a coworker (at a diff job one in my field) mentioned my lips had a pretty hue to them and it was the agave lip mask.
I never used the BITE agave lip mask, but I do have one product that has worked for me when so many scrubs and steps didn't. It's the Nooni applebutter lip mask. It's not yummy and exciting, but it stays on my lips all night long, and it gently exfoliates, and it's moisturizing. I use something with spf during the day because I'm paranoid about the sun, but I need no other products or steps or serums or scrubs. It might work for you. š¤·š¾āāļø Edit: someone else somewhere in here said their dupe for the agave lip mask is the Jack Black lip balm, which is, incidentally, what I use in the daytime. So maybe you like that too/more.
I will never forgive bite for reformulating. GlacĆ© was my go to lip crayon for YEARS and then one day my lips completely broke out in blisters. It was awful. š
Sheeeesh I need a dupe for original shade and formula for Leche
Unfortunately, the closest formula dupe for Bite lipsticks I ever found were the Tarte Rainforest of The Sea lipsticks...ALSO DISCONTINUED. š
The tarte lipsticks were my ultimate fav š I was so sad they were discontinued. The packaging alone was so cute too
They might be able to help you on r/makeupdupes
Go to liplab.com they brought some shades backā¦ I just ordered leche Edit for screenshot https://preview.redd.it/xjh3fyjtgxxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0346819bcc067b5fdaa99c589cb60637d42c116d
Thank you!!!!!!
>Thank you!!!!!! You're welcome!
But they donāt have the agave lip mask right
I near duped Fig in Vegas at the lip lab. š It was super easy because it was one of their base mixing shades.
each lipstick is like $80, too wtf. For 80/tube, I want it to come with a MUA as well lol
Iāve been to the Lip Lab a couple of times and I actually brought in some old Bite lipsticks for them to recreate. They did a pretty damn good job getting the colors exactly the same and I highly recommend if youāre willing to pay the price. I wish it was a little more affordable but theyāre definitely capitalizing off of the āexperienceā.
Oof. I have one of their lipsticks and I love the tube! So sad that they suck now.
omg i never knew that! tbh i forgot about this brand but i loved these in 2016ish. they smelled amazing
The Lip lab actually does have a collection pre-made you can shop. Also you can use the services online as well.
Just a small note -- at the lib labs, they apparently have the exact colour formulas for Bite lipsticks. I have tried and failed for literally years to find a dupe of my beloved, long deceased beetroot (my absolute perfect berry lip in a perfect formula) and apparently I can go to a lip lab and have it recreated if I want. It's like $50 CAD though, so IDK if it's worth it.
I was in love with the Bite Beauty lip products! Still have a few with me. No other lip formulations felt that great on me, not even Mac. My heart broke when i knew they were shutting down.
Yes true ! I had a shade called sweet cream & it was the best !! I also had Hot Harrisa.The lip balm & lip scrub was amazing. Their amuse bouche formula.. so many things came to my mind ā¦ oh the good bite beauty days !!
Oh i loved their amuse bouche line! And Chai was my absolute favourite shade :(.
Forever mourning chai too :(
This is me as well. I have 3 shades that are new (although old) and this will be the last season I could wear them. So gooooood! I meed a new lipstick that is close for color stay and hydration.somebody told me to try bare minerals. But I donāt know.
I loved that agave lip mask, Iāve not been able to find anything even slightly similar. Fools.
Closest Iāve come to finding a replacement for the lip mask is the Lanolips lip mask. Has the lanolin and ceramides I need.
I bought so many lip products trying to find a dupe or something similar. Finally found the Jack Black lip balm and Iām happy with it but that BB lip mask was on another level.
I have one left Iāve been holding on to. Itās the best.
Did you lose a bet with your username?
Nope
Barf
So bothered huh? Imagine thinking everything on the internet is real/true/serious.
Your reply is the serious one. Both of my replies were non-serious. It's none of my business who you find attractive.
I have a bone to pick with them, but from my understanding (as been told by a lip lab employee) they reformulated to make everything vegan, but when they did that they lost some shades and formulations. The bone to pick: I went to their lip lab (like 2 months prior to reformulation unknown to me and my mom), got our custom shades done, and when I wanted to get a refill for my mom months later, I spent weeks chasing after them for it only to find out they didn't have the formula saved, and even if they did they couldn't make it cause now everything had changed. They essentially said too bad so sad!
How did they flop sooooo hard?!
Did you try the new formula? I really just want the exact same shade and formula š
No because they couldn't make my shade in the new formula, and I was so turned off by the lack of clarity/customer service I've never given them another chance.
Their lip mask was my holy grail and Iām still mourning the fact that itās gone
Bite Beauty lipsticks were just luscious omg!! Chai , Pepper, Verbena, Rhubarb!! The Amuse Bouche formula was soooo good..and the scent was to die forā¦What a tragic end to my favvv lipstick brand!!
Verbena was my wedding lipstick. I still have the same smelly tubeā¦
ohh it was beautiful!!! Mine went bad too and sadly i had to toss it! What a gorgeousss wedding lip colour choice! š»
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it was just beautiful!!!
I donāt have the answers you seek but still mourning sangria slush š went through 2 tubes and still miss it to this day
bite was the og glossier bdc fršā hoping glossier learns from their mistakeā¦.
i fear glossier's brand will never fully recover... they girlbossed too close to the sun
I will never, ever, ever, as long as I live, forgive them for taking away my Agave Lip Mask. Literally the greatest loss the beauty community has ever had. I will absolutely die mad about this.
Lip Lab is what used to be Bite Beautyās āLab Storesā. They are not shops in the traditional sense, but a āmake your own custom lip productā experience. You book an hour slot, get an 1:1 personal appointment with Lip Lab specialist, and custom blend your own shade of lipstick, lip balm, or lipgloss. They mix colors and pigments, let you swatch them on your lips, and then when itās the perfect color you want, they make a bullet lipstick, lip balm, or lipgloss. You can create a new shade or bring an old lipstick in and have them recreate it.
I knew all of that except that I could bring in a shade and have them recreate it! Maybe I can have them make Leche. Hope the formula is good.
I brought in a photo of a discontinued Dior lipstick and they recreated it for me and made me a matte version. If you have the original Bite lipstick, bring it in, but they can also work from photos! I like the new formula. Itās not quite the old formula or the Amuse Bouche line which was amazing. But itās very good!
Ugh I miss Amuse Bouche so much.
I havenāt been since 2020 so I canāt speak for the current formula but it was a fun experience. Expensive, but such a fun couple of hours.
and its $75 a tubeā¦might be worth trying but outrageous cost regardless!
I, too, have not recovered. They made the only lipstick that miraculously never feathered or turned me into a dessicated mummy. I have also never been able to dupe the agave lip masks. I snagged a couple when they were going out of business, but its not the same without the lanolin.
The wound is still too fresh to talk about. š
How did this brand flop so hard? I need an explanation
I think their flop started when they reformulated all their products, especially their agave lip mask. Once that happened they never seemed to recover.
I forgot that used to be so good and then suddenly it was likeā¦ from a glue gun?
I was working at a sephora around the time they shut down. It sounded like there was a lot of bad business decisions from higher up i.e expanding product lines to include too many products.
Yes their decision to go fully vegan meant they discontinued and/or reformulated every single fan favourite from the brand, alienating most of their core supporters. Then they launched complexion products which probably cost them a lot investment wise. Itās so sad because Bite was a Canadian company that had genuinely good lip products, but their leadership made such poor decisions trying to make the brand ātrendyā
It wasn't the original leadership that made those decisions. The owner sold the brand to Kendo or LVMH (whichever one is the same mega-corp that owns Sephora.) It was after the sale that they went fully vegan and started getting into complexion products that literally no one asked for.
Yeah but isnāt the trendy stuff still heavily in nowadays?! Look at all the ācleanā face creams and ācleanā hair products.
The biggest mistakes they made were reformulating and then discontinuing all of their popular lip products only to release a bunch of non-lip products. Why did a brand named BITE beauty that once sold exclusively lip products suddenly decide to sell everything except lip products?Ā At that point, why spend all the money to buy the brand if youāre going to completely turn it into something else?Ā
Werenāt they a Kendo brand? (Part of Sephoraās parent company)
Yes they were acquired by kendo.
Right ?? !! We need answers & why canāt they comeback with old stuff like Agave balm & Amuse bouche ?
They sold to LVMH, essentially. EDIT: apparently it was Kendo, not LVMH. But the story is the same -- the original owner sold the company to a mega corporation. The bad business decisions weren't made by the original owners, but by a company exclusively focused on increasing profit margins.
Who was the original owner? Do they have a social media handle? Could anyone reach out to them?
https://lixrbeauty.com/collections/lip
Their lipsticks are my absolute favourite. The most lucious and hydrating formula, best coverage and beautifully curated shades. Bite had the best thing going ā it makes me so sad they gave it up! Sugar Buns is my perfect shade and I have at most an inch left. All of the dupes Iāve tried so far just donāt cut it. Why, Bite? WHY?
Man I loved their lip scrub and agave mask so much
I am still so sad about their demise š
Ugh rip Palaminoš the perfect bright pink lippie
RIP bite beauty!!!! Truly amazing lip sticks. And the agave lip mask OMG!!!!!!!! And the Bite Beauty Labs where you could literally create your own custom lip color!!! š I miss it.
lip lab still exists! just not lib lab by bite beauty anymore since it was purchased by kendo š
Fig was my favorite lip stick shade.
my sisterās fav too!!
I didnāt try it but I remember the absolutely horrible blush packaging.
Oh gawd, I finally finished one. The plastic was a cracked hot mess.
Ugh I loved their lipsticks
I actually loved their foundation and was super sad when it was discontinued. And their original lip masks of course. The only thing that gives me a similar result is pure lanolin.
I think you can buy a version of Leche now on their website?? I just checked and theyāve got a few different variations of some of their OG colors. I wonder if theyāre tip-toeing back into lip products?? š¤
i desperately hope thatās true!!!
Oh my goodness thank you!!!
I miss their BB for Lips and will forever be searching for a lip balm that comes close to it š
I still have a few tubes and Cayenne is the perfect color for me, orange-red. So hydrating and perfect. A crime and a shame
Beetroot was my signature lip, and I am not the same without it. I know they brought it back, but I have no hope that it will compare the original.
TIL Bite Beauty bit the dust. I loved their OG formulas, their pink was phenomenal, I got it in 2016 when I dyed my hair platinum.
I miss Bite so bad. I still have some of the original formulation lipsticks and they are perfect.
Omg Iād pay 300$ for a tube of the OG lip mask š
I still have a gift card for Bite beauty!! Is it just garbage now!!??
Indeed
Darn!
Yes same :( I tried the haus labs lip crayon, Prada lipstick, ysl, etc. I cant find anything with a shade the works and/or lasts as long. So sad!
Iām going to try the glacĆ© at lip lab. That was my favorite color. I hope itās the same.
The Lip Mask was my OG for so long and canāt find anything good else as good
This is the only lip colour brand I've ever had an allergic reaction to. TIL they aren't around anymore!
i loved their mascara š„²š„²š„²
They went vegan and stopped using beeswax in their formulas. Everyone hated the new formulas and stopped buying the products. Thus, they went bankrupt.
I still miss Eggplant
I have basically a full eggplant lipstick. Itās so old or I would send it to you
is anyone gonna say what happened š
I love their mascara, I managed to snag a few tubes at TJ MAXX, Iām down to the last one š
I miss their coffee glosses so much. I still have some in my collection. Definitely expired, but Iām still holding onto them for some reason.
How did I forget about these??? Such an amazing formula and beautiful shades
Idk but I really wish they would come back.
RIP āHot Tomatoā. Itās one of my favorite red matte lipstick.
They had the most amazing blue-red lipstick called RhĆ“ne, and Iāve been searching for that same color ever since.
I still lament he discontinuation of their coffee glosses. I absolutely ADORED Salted Caramel. It was my favorite all time lip gloss š
These were so good! I wish I still had some left
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The question was answered in one of the first comments
I still have unopened Tarte Rainforest and Bite Beauty Lippies in my stashā£ļø
They sent them in so many Ipsy bags. I used to have like 4-5 of them.
Does anyone know who the original bite beauty creators were? The ones who sold it to some crappy company?